Thursday, 6 December 2012

OUGD401 - Lecture Notes: The Auteur


  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Stanley Kubrick
  • Tim Burton

  • French new wwave
  • Auteur - french for the author
  • French film critics celebrated the idea of the director as an artist

  • History of film as the history of auteurs - seen like artists - original work - creative control - personal film language

  • Notes of the 'Auteur' theory by Saris (1962) - technical innovation - directors personal style - deeper interior meaning

  • Hitchcock
  • Long career beginning in the early years of film
  • work in Europe and America
  • Master of the suspense & audiences reception of the film
  • Influential in later genres like the american slasher
  • Italia Gialo

  • Expressionistic lighting
  • Story telling visually in silent era
  • Use of subjective camera
  • Dolly zoom
  • Clever use of montage & cutting to create tension in spite of the production code

  • 1920's - Hitchcock joined the film industry - started as Artist, drawing sets etc - sent to Germany - heart of expressionism film

  • First film - The Lodger

  • Subjective shot - putting the camera like it is seeing through the characters eyes

  • Dolly zoon - Vertigo

  • 'What is Drama but life with the dull bits cut out'

  • Hitchcock distinguishable personality - expressionism - cameo apperances in his films - narative is often visual rather than words - continuous use of certain actors - suspense

  • Birds - symbolic

  • Expressionism - not concerned with realism  & naturalism

  • Colour is mad in an expressionstic & symbolic way

  • Selzwick introduces him to psycho analysis - they made 'Rebecca', 'Spellbound' & 'Notorious'
  • Collaborated with Dali

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